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North of Metz, the XX Corps welded several bridgeheads across the Moselle into one, engulfing Thionville, then launched a push which carried across the German border. The 3rd Cavalry Division seized the German villages of Besch and Wochern, while the 10th Armored rumbled through a place called Launstroff-three miles inside Germany. Major General Manton S. Eddy's XII Corps, halted only briefly by counterattacks, was swinging around to the south and east of Metz toward Saarbrücken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: La Pucelle | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...instance, there's the darndest amount of hush-hush which must surround our pursuits (including the extra-curricular ones, of course). All we can say is that the boys are learning xxxx xxxx xxxx, and studying all there is to know about xxx x xxx xxx xx...

Author: By George M. Avaklan, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 7/30/1943 | See Source »

From the German prison camp designated as Stalag XX a British soldier wrote to his small daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, PRISONERS: Down the Rabbit Hole | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...conscription broadside, Columnist Johnson resorted to Holy Writ. Titling a column "Biblical Draft," he cited Scripture to his purpose: Numbers XXVI, 1-2, for registration of the whole adult population and classification as to its availability for military service; Numbers XXXI, 3-4, for assignment of quotas, and Deuteronomy XX, 5-9, for a likely list of exemptions from active service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Biblical Draft | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Having twice debated Jay Lovestone, and also other, Communists, I long to joust with Earl XX...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHALLENGE | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

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